Jacqueline J. Miller, who has been through many corporate acquisitions, mergers and divestitures as a senior HR executive, offers her insight about how to explain the opportunities that such change offers people.

By focusing on employees first, management at Trident saw the product get better. That change resulted in improved quality (no more “We make it nice because we make it twice”), quadruple the annual revenue, and reduced turnover.

In 1997, a new welfare law was enacted. Since then, hiring welfare recipients has become a growing solution for companies like Cessna Aircraft trying to cooperate with the new law, boost their workforce planning strategies and be good corporate citizens.